Modernity seems to produce its own specific pathologies. These pathologies are present as global catastrophes, such as global wars, climate crises, and genocides, or as more “common” and almost ...

Muqtedar Khan teaches at the University of Delaware. He is a co-founder of the Delaware Council for Global and Muslim Affairs and is on Twitter. Updated December 6, 2015, 11:09 PM How can we wrap our ...

Man is a sovereign, self-governing and autonomous rational being. We, as humans, prefer to call ourselves conservative or are labeled as traditional by our society. We are afraid to accept a change or ...

A conversation with the German theorist about the history of Western philosophy and more. In 2019, Jürgen Habermas—perhaps Europe’s most well-known living philosopher—published his long-awaited Auch ...

Gut-based conditions are on the rise worldwide as are broader patterns of disrupted relationships between humans and food. In particular, the last two decades have witnessed an explosion of scientific ...

According to one popular account of the decline of Western Civilization, everything was humming along splendidly until the moderns came along and ruined it all. The Greeks, we are told, had ...

Last week’s column, (see “The American backlash against modernity,” 1/26/25) elicited responses that seemed to conflate three distinct yet related ideas: modernity, “wokeness,” and diversity, equity, ...

Although the Global South has often been addressed in political and economic terms, less attention has been granted to how it might be understood from an intellectual standpoint. One answer to this ...